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Meaning 1
The Iranian language of the Saka people.
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Saka
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name
Meaning 2
A town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
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name
Meaning 3
A surname.
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name
Meaning 4
A village in Ida-Viru County, Estonia.
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name
Meaning 5
A village in Courland, Latvia.
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name
Meaning 6
A commune of Oriental, Morocco.
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noun
Meaning 7
A member of any of various peoples formerly inhabiting steppes north of the Iranian plateau.
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History
Etymology
First attested in the late 19th century as a learned borrowing from Sanskrit शक (śaka), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎣𐎠 (s-k-a /Sakā/, “Scythian”), from 𐎿𐎣 (s-k /Saka/, “Scythia”), from Scythian. Mostly displaced earlier Saca, ultimately from the same source via Latin. Doublet of Saca, Shaka, and Scyth.
Borrowed from Japanese 坂(さか) (Saka); sometimes used as a topographic surname for someone who lived on a slope.
Borrowed from Estonian Saka.
Borrowed from Latvian Saka.
Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic صاكة (ṣāka).
Borrowed from Turkish Saka, an occupational surname for a water-carrier, from saka (“water-carrier”).
Borrowed from Yoruba Saka.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: սակերեն (sakeren) — language
- Chinese Mandarin: 塞語 /塞语 (Sàiyǔ) — language
- Finnish: saka — language
- Hindi: शक (śak) — language
- Hindi: शाक (śāk) — language
- Hindi: शाका (śākā) — language
- Japanese: コータン語 (Kōtan-go) — language
- Japanese: ホータン・サカ語 (Hōtan-Saka-go) — language
- Kazakh: сақ тілі (saq tılı) — language
- Kazakh: сақа тілі (saqa tılı) — language
- Persian: ساکا (sâkâ) — language
- Russian: сакский (sakskij) — language
- Sanskrit: शक (śaka) — language
- Chinese: 坂町 (Bǎndīng) — town in Japan
- Japanese: 坂町 (Saka-chō) — town in Japan
- Marathi: साका (sākā) — town in Japan
- Estonian: Saka — village in Estonia
- German: Sackhof — village in Estonia
- German: Sackenhausen (pre-1918) — village in Latvia
- Latvian: Saka — village in Latvia
- Arabic: صاكة (ṣāka) — commune in Morocco